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treated in Session 7 (11/26/2009)

Revolcadores Departure (Moratalla), 22/11/2009.
La Sierra Revolcadores, SCI (Site of Community Importance) since 2000, is a landscape and a species that is well worth a visit. Placed in a high mountain scenery in the region of Murcia, is privileged if we appreciate the differences.

From Puerto Alto, moved by their small agricultural plots, and then boarded Murcia summit, "Revolcadores."

griffon vultures as Cazorla, Cadiz and Navarra, small passerine large forests such as Coal Tit, agate or the nuthatch, all unknown on the coast of Cartagena, where we came.

Cold

can only live in the most resistant trees as white pine (Pinus nigra ssp. clusiana) or shrubs well protected, "chamaephytes pulvinulares" calling botanists, when referring to plants that adopt forms of "cushion", or bearing creeping round to withstand wind, snow and cold.

If all of this, we add the condition of wintering area Capiblanco Blackbird, or more sporadic presence of the Alpine Accentor and the even rarer Greenfinch Serrano (José Pedro Portillo saw a flock of a dozen individuals, on 14 November), is a mixture with enough symbolism for the naturalist, as to just stroll along the steep trails worthwhile.

Unfortunately, we had a meeting with the corpse of a Marten, with no apparent signs of predation, we think of a shot or poison as a possible cause of his death. But it is only a guess.

With greater wealth, was the sighting of the queen of the mountains, the Golden Eagle. One copy we flew close enough to show its dark plumage and absence of white spots, a sign that we were dealing with an adult.

more humble, Black Redstart, met us at the top of Revolcadores. Only in winter on the coast, here finds an appropriate home for the entire year.

Among mammals, no luck with herbivores, but the trails, and rooting of feral pigs allowed us to imagine the kind of highway that Puerto High could mean for their deslazamientos.

Abundant Black Sabina (Juniperus phoenicea ), poor (Amelanchier rotundifolia) or the thorny Barberry (Berberis hispanica) were part of a wide range plant at a time when hard and cold, we still allowed to watch our most rupicola Fern, the Doradilla (Ceterach officinarum).

Monograph: Armand Delille and myxomatosis.

If Armand Delille, a famous French physician (a member of the French Academy of Medicine) had not been a vineyard, what would be the Lynx and Iberian Imperial Eagle today?.

This, and any other questions, was addressed in this special issue dedicated to one of the most terrible diseases for Mediterranean ecosystems: rabbit myxomatosis.

Armand, in 1952, tired of the rabbit eat its vineyards, inoculate the virus of myxomatosis a few loose and hoping they infect the rest. And what if they did, this disease spreads rapidly (Imported from South America) and Europe. A year later entered our country and is a real catastrophe for predators.

Especially for the two aforementioned rabbit superspecialists.

Random Hearts "or absolute irresponsibility?, Seeing the picture of our rivers and wetlands as well as other ecosystems, it seems clear that Spain did not learn from mistakes and our environmental managers seem more concerned with hunting and fishing conservation of nature. And if not tell that to the quail, crayfish, not to mention the catfish or the Rabbit. Examples abound where looking for, a "bunch".

And finally we saw a presentation on " modern Noah's Ark ", located on the Norwegian island of Svalbard.

Here has built a silo full plant seeds in Norwegian Arctic.

will store seeds from all known varieties of plants, a "backup", that will preserve from extinction.